AP Zeri Mid Guide (latest patch) - Zeri-ously electrifying!
Welcome to our AP Zeri Mid Guide, where we turn the mid lane into Zeri-ously electrifying territory! If you're looking to shock your opponents and spark some mid-lane mayhem, you've come to the right place! Let’s flash right in!
Zeri Summoner Spells:
1. Flash: Essential for most champions, providing mobility, escape, and engage potential.
2. Teleport: Allows for map presence, quick returns to lane, and split-pushing opportunities.
Zeri Runes:
Primary Tree - Inspiration:
1. First Strike: Grants bonus gold and damage on the first hit against enemy champions.
2. Magical Footwear: Provides free boots at 12 minutes (or sooner with kills/assists).
3. Future's Market: Allows borrowing gold for early item spikes.
4. Cosmic Insight: Offers cooldown reduction for summoner spells and items.
Secondary Tree - Sorcery:
1. Absolute Focus: Grants bonus AP when above 70% health.
2. Gathering Storm: Provides scaling AP as the game progresses.
Stat Shards:
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+15-140 HP (lvls 1-18)
Zeri Starting Items:
Cull: Provides bonus gold upon killing 100 minions. It's a scaling item that can accelerate your gold income if you're confident in your farming ability. Additionally, it offers some life on-hit, helping with sustain in lane.
Health Potion
Zeri First Recall:
Noonquiver, Dark Seal
Zeri Core Build:
Statikk Shiv: Offers attack speed, critical strike chance, and a passive that deals bonus magic damage to multiple enemies on-hit. Great for wave clear and adding burst to your combo.
Nashor's Tooth: Provides attack speed, ability power, and a passive that adds bonus magic damage to your auto attacks based on your AP. This synergizes well with Zeri's kit, enhancing her auto-attack damage.
Rabadon's Deathcap: A significant boost to ability power. It increases your total AP by a percentage, making it a key item for any AP-heavy champion looking to maximize damage output.
Crown of the Shattered Queen:Grants ability power, health, and a passive that provides a shield against magic damage. This can help Zeri survive against other AP champions and adds to her burst potential.
Sorcerer's Shoes: Offers magic penetration and increased movement speed. Essential for dodging skill shots, roaming, and maximizing damage against champions with magic resist.
6th Item Choices:
Zhonya's Hourglass: Provides ability power, armor, and a stasis active. The stasis can be crucial for avoiding lethal damage or crowd control in teamfights.
Banshee's Veil: Grants ability power, magic resist, and a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability. Useful against AP champions or teams with crucial engage abilities.
Void Staff: Offers ability power and magic penetration. Essential when facing enemies who are stacking magic resist.
Other Mythic Choices:
Night Harvester: Provides ability power, health, and a passive that deals bonus damage to champions. It also grants a burst of movement speed upon damaging an enemy champion.
Hextech Rocketbelt: Grants ability power, health, and an active that propels you forward, dealing damage to enemies in your path. Useful for engaging or repositioning in fights.
Ability Details & Skill Order:
Living Battery (Passive): Zeri's passive ability.
Burst Fire (Q): Primary damage ability.
Ultrashock Laser (W): Utility/CC ability.
Spark Surge (E): Mobility tool.
Lightning Crash (R): Ultimate ability.
- Level 1: Q
- Level 2: E
- Level 3: W
- Max Order: Q -> E -> W
- Take a point in your R (ultimate) whenever possible (levels 6, 11, and 16).
Zeri Early Game:
Focus on farming and poking the enemy laner. Use your abilities to shove the wave quickly and look for roams, especially top lane using your E on walls.
Zeri Mid Game:
Continue to push waves and roam. Look for picks and objectives. Start grouping with your team for skirmishes and objectives.
Zeri Late Game:
Position safely in teamfights, using your burst combo (E(Q autos)/R/P(autos)) to eliminate key targets. Always try to proc First Strike before going in.
Zeri Teamfighting:
Stay at the backline and wait for the right moment to unleash your burst combo. Use your mobility to dodge key enemy abilities and reposition. Focus on taking down high-value targets like enemy carries.
Zeri around Objectives:
Dragons: Help your team secure vision around the dragon pit. Use your burst to help take it down quickly.
Baron: Similar to dragons, but be more cautious due to Baron's higher damage output and the potential for enemy ambushes.
Matchups:
Zeri Threats:
Kassadin: An extreme threat. If you don't outscale him early, he becomes a nightmare in the mid/late game.
It's all fun and games until someone gets outplayed. Thanks for tuning into our AP Zeri Mid Guide – where we make mid-lane magic happen, one shock at a time!
